Removing One Barrier to Protecting Sex Partners in HIV Remission Studies With a Treatment Interruption

• Published in: The Journal of infectious diseases Vol. 220; no. Supplement_1; pp. S22 - S23
• Main Author: Eyal, Nir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: US Oxford University Press 02.07.2019
• Subjects: Adult; Anti-HIV Agents - administration & dosage; Coinfection - prevention & control; Disease prevention; Drug dosages; Female; HIV; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - transmission; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Male; Medical ethics; Medical research; Medical treatment; Remission; Remission (Medicine); Remission Induction; Research ethics; Risk Factors; Sexual partners; Sexual Partners - psychology; Supplement; SUPPLEMENT ARTICLES; United States; Unsafe Sex - prevention & control; Vaccines - administration & dosage; Withholding Treatment; United States; clinical trials; HIV; human subject research; research ethics; analytic treatment interruption; HIV cure-related studies

Only a few of the recommendations made in this supplement are implemented in ongoing HIV remission studies that involve an analytical treatment interruption. The absence of these recommendations in protocols puts sexual partners of study participants at serious risk. This paper addresses one possibl...